Lucy
Hershey Park
My Family
Well... you are in luck, because we are doing ALL THREE today!
With 8 fun-loving nieces and nephews the fact that Uncle Greg and Aunt Melissa live in Hershey pretty much makes us the favorites.
That's okay with me... I'll buy your love. I'm not too proud for that.
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So for the past few years it has become our tradition to have a day of fun at Hershey Park all together!
The kids love it
My sister said they literally count down the hours!
And the adults love it
less the slightly panic-inducing chaos
Because we get to be together, laugh and be siblings
whilst watching the little ones experience new things and have tons of fun in the meantime
This year we planned for one day... but it just so happened to be the absolute worst day of the whole summer: rain, thunder, lightning, wind and so on.
So we cancelled that and the day we ended up with was absolute perfection.
Weather that sits comfortably in the low to mid 70s is where my heart resides.
That perfect balance between summer and fall:
1. Just enough warmth that the kids could do the waterpark and only shiver a little bit.
2. Cool enough that we weren't sweating or dehydrating or wishing we were anywhere but in a crowd of sweaty hot people.
3. Cool enough that I could wear a sweater in the evening (I love sweaters!)
4. Not crowded hardly at all since most kids are back in school... which meant we could pretty much walk right on to any of the rides. (waiting in line at amusement parks is NOT my thing)
Bliss.
The water park in the morning was stellar.
Low crowds, lots of sun, refreshing (read: frigid) water
I hung with Lucy and Clara most of the time - I even took them down one of the kiddie water slides.
I am thankful for God's mercy that no one got a picture of that event... or of the complete stranger that had to literally take a kid out of my hand and help my old-lady self up out of the water at the bottom of the slide.
It wasn't pretty.
Yet Lucy pleaded for a repeat of it. Girl loves the slide, wet or dry!
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I love Lucy's older cousins and how they fawn over her and the other littes. They are just so sweet and LOVE to make her laugh! It's adorable to watch! You can tell they are siblings, they know just what to do to make a toddler giggle!
Also... can we talk for a second about how my child is a lover of danger.
I mean... in every-day life she LOVES when you scare her. She loves to be bounced, swung, almost-dropped, and the like... and that fearlessness carried right into this little wave pool!
My little fish would crawl to the depth where she pretty much drowns and then laugh and laugh as each little wave knocked her over.
I would try and "save" her and she's all: MOOOOOMMMM WHY'D YOU DO THAT!?
Maybe not in so many words... but she was saying it in her way.
So... I brought her to where it was a little more shallow but... she would have none of it and she would head back to the dangerous, turbulent waves.
I am in for it with this one!
Little dare devil!
I spent most of time with the little ones but it was great fun in those little water play grounds!
Maybe as they grow I'll get to experience the "big-kid" water attractions! :)
Once the kids were thoroughly blue and shivering we decided to dry off and move on to the rest of the park.
The kid's ages are different enough that we couldn't stay together the whole time. So my dad and my brother, the adventurous ones, took the older kids to go on big-kid rides. And my sisters and I took the littles to all those cute kiddo rides.
Not to state the obvious here but...these kid rides are literally the exact same thing: Ya sit in a cart of some sort and it goes in a circle with the only variance being you are sitting in a bumble-bee instead of a lady bug, or a train instead of a space ship... but really, it's the same thing... you ain't fooling me.
Despite the clear repetition of it all:
Lucy LOVED every.single.one.
We would take her off one and she would just try and climb back on.
"what's that? what's that? WHAT'S THAT!?
Translates roughly to... "PUT ME BACK ON NOW!"
Sorry baby girl, but don't be sad! Let's go try this completely new and different ride that goes in a circle! It's like nothing you've ever tried before!
wink wink
In all seriousness though when it comes to a variety of rides for all different ages, hershey Park really does it well! Kids of all ages...
I promise they don't pay me to advertise, though sometimes it sound like it! ;)
My one negative of the day is strollers. GAH!
Dragging strollers through the park is something I won't soon miss once the kids are older.
Dodging people, pushing them up hill, down hill and up hill again.
Making sure they aren't lost, stolen, left-alone, falling over...
Lifting kids in, taking them out, buckle, un-buckle, shade, un-shade...
sheesh!
Thanks dad for keeping watch over them while the kids all scattered! :)
Lucy doesn't see her cousins nearly enough. Makes my heart glad when she gets to!
It's not only great that she gets to see them but also it's like a bunch of babysitters!
Thanks for helping me keep a leash on this bugger! She's speedy!
We wrapped up the day with quite a lot of roller-coaster action.
My brother and Greg went on a roller-coaster tour and hit as many as they could with the few moments of freedom the moms allowed them.
The kids looked on in envy as the parents rode the big, exciting roller coasters.
They stood waving and dreaming of when they too could ride them! :)
"Next year Aunt Melissa! Next Year I can go on it too!"
Greg and I ended our day, once everyone had headed home, with finally getting on the newest ride at Hershey Park - even waiting in line for it was fun!
Thankful for another GREAT family fun day at Hershey Park.
Until Next Year!
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